Tang sentenced to up to 17 years in prison

1:04 PM,
Apr. 8, 2013

Peng Tang

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The victim of Peng Tang's alleged sexual assault said her pain went beyond the original assault.

"I couldn't sleep for a long time and for the first couple of weeks (after the assault) I always had nightmares," the woman said through a statement read by Johnson County Attorney Janet Lyness. "As a student who comes from a relatively conservative culture background, it was really hard for me to stay in the University of Iowa since the defendant was trying to distort the whole story and spread out a lot of rumors about me online."

The woman said rumors were posted about her on Chinese social media ...